THE EFFECT OF BRAIN DOMINANCE ON THE STUDENTS ENGLISH ACHIEVEMENT

Ulviana Khoirunnisa, Yahya Alaydrus, Ika Hidayanti

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Abstract

The aim of this study was to know whether or not there is significance effect between brain dominance and student’s English achievement in MTs Ma’arif NU. The research design in this study is quantitative Ex post- facto design. The subject in this study consists of 20 students. An ex post-facto research design was used in this research. The sample was 20 students and (13 male and 7 female) were selected by the researcher. The Instruments of the research were brain dominance questionnaire adopted from Kurniawan 2013) and English final score achievement in the second semester of the 8th grade student at MTs Ma’arif NU which was taken from their English teacher. The result showed that sig (2- tailed) level was .972 >0.05. And the t-obtained from the data analysis was -0,036. with the df 18 at 0,05 is 1.725. And the result of the data t-value lower then t critical value. It means that there was no significant effect between brain dominance and student English achievement. According to the result, it can be said that the null hypothesis is accepted while the alternative hypothesis is rejected.

Key Words: brain dominance, learning style, student achievement.


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